SHAWNEE, Kan. - A moderate Republican who lost her seat in the Kansas House to a conservative GOP opponent will try to win it back as a Democrat.
Cindy Neighbor, now a member of the Shawnee Mission Board of Education, is the second prominent Republican from Johnson County to switch parties in order to run next year.
In a move that showed just how deep a divide exists between the party's conservative and moderate wings, District Attorney Paul Morrison said in October that he would run as a Democrat against conservative Attorney General Phill Kline in 2006.
"We haven't left the Republican Party," Neighbor said Friday. "They left us."
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